CONTENTS 



OF THE 



SECOND VOLUME. 



PART I. * 



HISTORY of the SOCIETY 



Dr James Hutton on Written Language, - Page 5. 



Letter relative to the Kraken, - - 16. 



Letter from the Tefhoo Lama to Mr Haftings, - 19, 

 Letter from the Prefident Virly, on the ufe of Caujiic Alkali in 



the Cure of Gravely - - 22» 

 Report and Judgment relative to Count de Windifchgratz's 



Problem, - - 25. 



Mr Hornby on the Dijlillation of Spirits from Carrots, 28. 



APPENDIX. 



List of Members or Fellows of the Royal Society of 



Edinburgh, continued from the firft Volume, - 31. 



Office-bearers of the Society, - - 34, 



Members deceased, - - 36. 



I. Bio- 



*N.B. Part I. comprehending the History, is contained under one fet of pages ; and 

 Part II. comprehending the Papers, is contained under two fets, viz. Papers of the 

 Physical Class under the one, and Papers of the Literary Class under the other.. 



